Inspirational Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky
“to seize a small boy by the slack of his roundabout and arrest his flight.”
“Am întrebat pe foarte mulţi ce simt.Aş fi vrut să ştiu mai exact cât de mare le este durerea şi cu ce altă suferinţă s-ar putea asemui? N-aş putea spune pentru ce anume vroiam neapărat să aflu acest lucru.Ştiu numai că nu întrebam din simplă curiozitate.”
“Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon ’em." Twelfth Night”
“There were dresses with trains, deep mysteries, anguish hidden beneath smiles. Then came the society of the duchesses; all were pale; all got up at four o'clock; the women, poor angels, wore English point on their petticoats; and the men, unappreciated geniuses under a frivolous outward seeming, rode horses to death at pleasure parties,”
“To educate the people three things are needed: schools, and schools, and schools.”
“As long as there is one upright man, as long as there is one compassionate woman, the contagion may spread and the scene is not desolate. Hope is the thing that is left to us, in a bad time. I shall get up Sunday morning and wind the clock, as a contribution to order and steadfastness.”
“The head-master made a sign to us to sit down. Then, turning to the class-master, he said to him in a low voice—”
“Hm… yes, all is in a man’s hands and he lets it all slip from cowardice, that’s an axiom.”
“هذا حسن , و لكن هل هم كثيرون اولئك الذين يصمدون و يواظبون علي الاهتمام بسعادة الآخرين ؟ إذا لم يكن المال إالها فهو نصف إله و إنه إغراء كبير , ثم هناك المرأة أيضا , ثم هناك الشك ثم هناك الحسد, فإذا بالمرء ينسي القضية الأساسية و يمضي يهتم بالأمور الصغيرة.”
“On fine summer evenings, at the hour when the warm streets are empty and the maids play shuttlecock in doorways, he would open his window and lean out on the sill. The river, which turns this part of Rouen into a sort of shabby little Venice, flowed by beneath him, yellow, violet or blue between its bridges and its railings. Some workmen were crouched down on the bank, washing their arms in the water. On poles projecting from the lofts up above, skeins of cotton hung out to dry. In front, away beyond the roof-tops, was a pure expanse of sky with a red sun setting. How good it would be over yonder, now! How cool under the beeches! He opened his nostrils to breathe in the wholesome country smells - which failed to reach him here.”
“Before any definite step can be taken in a household, there must be either complete division or loving accord between husband and wife.”
“Bütün kadınlar erkeklerden daha maddecidir. Biz aşktan muazzam bir şey yaparız, onlarsa her zaman terre-a-terre.”
“Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind." Don Quixote”
“What happiness there had been in those days! What freedom! What hope! What an abundance of illusions! She had none left now. Each new venture had cost her some of them, each of her successive conditions: as virgin, wife and mistress; she had lost them all along the course of her life, like a traveler who leaves some of his wealth at every inn along the road.”
“Levin felt more and more that all his thoughts about marriage, all his dreams of how he would arrange his life, were mere childishness, and that it was something he had not understood before, and now understood still less, though it was being accomplished over him; spasms were rising higher and higher in his breast, and disobedient tears were coming to his eyes.”
“During all this early time they had a peculiarly vivid sense of tension, as it were, a tugging in opposite directions of the chain by which they were bound.”
“For an instant he was offended, but immediately knew he could not be offended with her because she was himself.”
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Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky was a Russian writer, essayist and philosopher, perhaps most recognized today for his novels Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov.
Dostoyevsky's literary output explores human psychology in the troubled political, social and spiritual context of 19th-century Russian society. Considered by many as a founder or precursor of 20th-century existentialism, his Notes from Underground (1864), written in the embittered voice of the anonymous "underground man", was called by Walter Kaufmann the "best overture for existentialism ever written."
His tombstone reads "Verily, Verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit." from John 12:24, which is also the epigraph of his final novel, The Brothers Karamazov.